They Will Kill You is streaming on HBO Max this week. The film, directed by Kirill Sokolov and fronted by Zazie Beetz, is being recommended as a weekend pick for viewers hunting for something violent and off‑kilter.
The cast also includes Myha’la, Paterson Joseph, Tom Felton, Heather Graham and Patricia Arquette. The plot follows Asia, who goes to the exclusive New York apartment block the Virgil looking for her younger sister Maria, who works there as a maid; once she arrives, the residents try to kill her.
A weekly TV viewing guide lists two scheduled airings on Saturday 13 June at 9.30am and 6.15pm on Sky Cinema Premiere and HBO Max, making the film available to stream now and to catch on linear television that day. The listing frames They Will Kill You as one of several weekend options for viewers deciding what to watch.
The film is described by critics and listings as an ultra‑violent horror‑comedy mashup — a horrid caper that is rampantly bloody and defiantly silly. Viewers who like tonal jolts should note observers have compared elements of the film to Rosemary’s Baby and The Evil Dead, and that Sokolov’s first feature was Why Don’t You Just Die!, a title that signalled his appetite for black comedy and mayhem.
The movie’s central friction is blunt: Asia’s search for Maria is supposed to be a simple rescue or reckoning, but the residents of the Virgil respond with lethal hostility. That reversal — a woman entering an ostensibly civilized building and being met by a murderous interior — supplies both the film’s shocks and its comic inversions, and it’s the sequence that commentators single out when calling Zazie Beetz “kickass.”
The immediate practical news is straightforward: if you want to see what Sokolov and his cast have built, HBO Max carries the title for on‑demand viewing now, and the film has two scheduled slots on Saturday 13 June at 9.30am and 6.15pm on Sky Cinema Premiere and HBO Max. The descriptions promise blood and silliness in equal measure; the running through an upscale building that turns hostile is the set piece around which the rest of the film is built.
The unanswered question the film leaves dangling — and the one likely to decide whether viewers enjoy it — is simple and specific: what exactly is happening inside the Virgil that makes its residents try to kill Asia? That mystery is the movie’s engine. If you want to judge whether the horror and the comedy land, stream They Will Kill You on HBO Max or tune to the Sky Cinema Premiere airings on Saturday 13 June at 9.30am and 6.15pm and see how much of the Virgil’s brutality is motive and how much is madness.
